The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 18

If you will please go around to the door of my house at the foot of the tree, my porter will let you in."

Who acts: you, porter · What happens: go around, let in · To what, where: foot, you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, porter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	please	please	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	advcl
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 foot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 foot	det
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foot	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 porter	nmod:poss
21	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go around a condition, not said to happen	future	you			the foot of the tree		to the door of my house; around property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	let in	future	my porter	you					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/7/18/